U.S. Patent 10997018 was awarded to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd. on May 04, 2021 and is entitled “Consenus of shared blockchain data storage based on error correction code.” The first named inventor is Haizhen Zhuo of Hangzhou, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A computer-implemented method includes: retrieving a plurality of blocks from a blockchain node of a blockchain network. The plurality of blocks are encoded using error correction coding (ECC) as encoded blocks. For each encoded block: The encoded block is divided into a plurality of datasets. Hash values of the plurality of datasets are calculated. A request that includes at least one of the plurality of datasets, the hash values, and a data storage scheme that provides assignments of the plurality of datasets to the plurality of blockchain nodes is sent to each of the plurality of blockchain nodes of the blockchain network. Responses for accepting the request is received from at least a number of blockchain nodes that equals a number of the one or more datasets of information bits. Each of the plurality of blockchain nodes is sent a notification for adopting the data storage scheme. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on October 30, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 17/085518 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10997018. The primary examiner was Syed A Zaidi.

Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 38 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 0 times by other U.S. patents according to our law firm research, and can be considered an innovative patent in the field of cryptocurrency and blockchain.

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